Sarah Levin is the senior legislative representative for the Secular Coalition for America,

a lobbying group in Washington, D.C. representing non-religious people on Capitol Hill.

She graduated from American University with a degree in

international studies focusing on the Middle East and Israeli domestic

politics and I really wanted to talk to her because I think it's been a rough week for a lot of people especially if you're an

atheist and you care about a lot of progressive issues and she knows what she's talking about.

So Sarah, let me start off by just saying console me is there is there anything good I can take from what happened on Tuesday and we can get into details in a bit but I mean what should I be thinking right now?

Yes well there actually are a few things that I can say that will lighten your spirits.

First of all, not once but twice on Tuesday night

when issues that our community care about

were on the ballot, we won and the religious right loss and when I'm talking about

our ballot initiatives. So first of all in Colorado which by the way was

a swing state where two-thirds of voters, 66%, supported the End of Life Options Act.

That was a major victory.

That was a ballot initiative that legalized the aid and

aid and dying for the terminally ill and this is despite millions of dollars

spent by religious groups opposing the measure so I think that's definitely

something to celebrate.

So this ballot initiative basically says if you are terminally ill and you want to end your own life, now, I mean, I'm sure there's some more rules behind that, but that's a legal thing you can ask for now, no one's going to be punished if a doctor helps you with that, something like that?

Exactly. So generally, death with dignity, they're sometimes called the Aid and Dying, sometimes death with dignity, they're sometimes called the

eat and dying, sometimes death with dignity,

and then you also get End of Life Options Act.

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